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Porsche has previously stated that it planned to have a hybrid version of every model in the near future, including the 911, but the vaunted sports car will have to wait to receive electric motors and batteries.

Speaking with Australia’s Motoring.com at the Paris Motor Show, Porsche’s development head, Michael Steiner, said the company has put a hybrid version of the 911 on the back burner.

“It at least looks like the market potential on a new vehicle with completely electric [drive] is more than another derivative of the 911. We decided we would do the Mission E as our priority one. It’s in serial development,” he said.

The Mission E, Porsche’s first pure electric car is heading for a 2020 arrival date.

The company is hiring 1,400 employees to develop the car and is investing $782 million for a new assembly plant and paint shop in Stuttgart, Germany.

That doesn’t mean a 911 Hybrid is never coming.

“A 911 hybrid? It’s possible, yes. It’s possible to have 918-derived technology in a 911. It’s possible with today’s technology in a 911,” Steiner said. “However, there is no decision to do this on short notice, but we have this constantly on our radar,”